Well today is Monday!!! A good day to start on.
Trying a
liquid fast for today. Although not recommended (Type 1 diabetic).
Very much needed! Did not behave myself this past weekend and now I
am paying for it! So for me, it's going to be coffee, tea, plenty of
water, my protein shakes (a necessity for wound healing) and a strong
dose of will power! My starting sugar reading was 250 @ 9 46a, right
now? 168! good reading!
Well I made till about 2 30pm. Them promptly fell off the wagon!! Not giving up! Too much at stake.
and some disappointing downs.
I learned some things in the process.
1. A schedule is a must!!!!
2. Sticking to the schedule is very important!!
3. If u are not supposed to have it, don't eat it!!!!
Well with yesterday behind me, I can only look at today and try to do better!
My
sugars were 247 this morning! Thanks to my eating forbidden chinese
food! Note: not all Chinese food is forbidden, there are some good
choices on the menu. I just did not choose any!!!
General Tso's
Chicken is definitely not a good choice!!! Of course it comes with
that fried rice of theirs! ooooooo and that egg roll!!! So I really
nose dived off the wagon last night!!!
Well this morning is my cold harsh light of reality!!!
I found this program online that will let u track ur readings to get a better understanding of your
glucose levels. www.sidiary.org once u download the program it walks u through the set up process
and
after that u log in your information. Pretty easy! It really showed
me how I am not doing well in controlling my sugars! I feel ashamed,
because I know I could do better. Not just for myself but for
my
family. My two grown children (still at home with me) are borderline
diabetics and my fiance` Nevell is an insulin dependant
diabetic also. So I am not being not only a role model for them, but the extra support they need to keep theirs in line.
Well, let's hope today I will do better than yesterday!
Well just took my dinner time sugars and it was 229. Better than yesterday!! Still not in the range I would like it to be!
Now onto something more interesting!!!! What could be more interesting??? For me that would be knitting!
Found
a nice sweater pattern that I believe that I could actually do! Just
have to work out the numbers for a top down version. What do u think?
The pattern seems pretty easy, but it is worked in pieces. Really thinking about giving it a try!!!
Well, I made it through day 2! Not too bad! My late sugars were 190!
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This morning was a better morning. My sugars were at 161. Much
better than yesterday! Although that is something to feel good about,
things went down hill from there!
I
live in this house with three other adults!! Three of them!!!!!! Not a
one of them felt the need to straighten the kitchen. Notice I said
straighten. Not clean. Either would
have been appreciated. The kitchen has a
dishwasher! So there would have not been any washing of dishes.
To
better understand why I am upset, you would have to know my
situation. I am disabled ( the other three are not). I have spina
bifida and I use a
power chair! On January 22 I had the first
two
surgeries to drain and debrede an extremely large abcess (12-15 cm deep
x 12 cm wide). The abcess had turned into a necrotizing faciitis, as it
had bacterial properties that were feeding on my
soft tissue.
On top of that I had a very bad UTI and a ceptic infection. I am very
fortunate to be at home, healing and not in some
rehabilitation center! So it would not be selfish in the least
for
me to expect that any one of these healthy individuals could keep the
kitchen reasonably clean? NO!!! I go to get a cup of coffee and to
start making my protein shake and can't!!! The kitchen
is
totally unsuitable for human habitation!!!
Did any of the healthy
individuals come forward to volunteer? Not a one!!! So I reload the
dishwasher, wash the remaining stack of dishes, pots and pans.
Clean
the blender so the shake could be made, dried all of the hand washed
and dishwasher washed dishes and started a load of laundry!!! Then I
could finally make my shake!!!!!
NO COFFEE YET!!!!!
I WANT MY COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I feel awesome!!!! just took my dinnertime sugars and they
were 131!!! Goes to show ( me anyway) that eating your veggies works!
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This morning was much better than the previous mornings! My sugars were at 149!
Did
not expect much from the kitchen and it lived up to it! It was not as
bad this morning as it was yesterday! But I tackled it and my shake!
This
morning it was chocolate banana!! Tasted pretty good! My goal is to
get a variety of flavors here in the house, so that I will have a change every now and then. Started out with strawberry, was good but was getting a bit boring.
Since I am having trouble with my breakfasts, these are working out really good!
